A juvenile detention center in Cherokee supported by Carroll County is on probation for a month because it kept a 17-year-old boy in leg restraints for nearly 48 hours and locked up in solitary confinement for nearly a week.

City officials and the Teamsters Union have reached a deal on a
three-year contract that includes annual salary-and-benefit package
increases that average 3 percent for each of the next three fiscal
years, Carroll City Manager Gerald Clausen reported Monday night during a
council session.

Carroll City Council members Monday night approved a $15,500 contract
with a firm headed by a former Des Moines police chief to lead the
search for a successor to Jeff Cayler, who has led the Carroll Police
Department for 30 years and plans to retire June 8.

Six options for improved public-library services in Carroll range in
estimated cost from $1.6 million to $2.9 million, according to
preliminary documents presented by the city’s architect, BCDM of Omaha,
Nebraska.

The Iowa Senate on a 46-0 vote Wednesday confirmed Gov. Terry Branstad’s
re-appointment of Rod Roberts, a former state legislator from Carroll,
as director of the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals.

The Omaha, Nebraska, architect charged with developing a consensus plan
for improved library services has released five initial conceptual
designs ranging from a remodel with a slight addition — 9,952 square
feet — to an expansion to the north and east —15,500 square feet.

If you couldn’t find a topic that interested you during the Carroll
Chamber of Commerce’s legislative forum in Glidden Saturday, you needed
that second cup of coffee or a sugar fix with a larger cinnamon roll.